Since the beginning of this year, with the continuous rise in fuel prices, the new energy vehicle market has been booming. While the familiar pure electric vehicles continue to exert their strength, hybrid models have also become a new bright spot in the car market at an amazing growth rate.
Under the collision of the dual force of industry trends and market demand, while BYD, the main force of the veteran hybrid car, continues to exert its strength, the market ushers in the debut or debut of more new faces of hybrid models, such as the Great Wall Haval Divine Beast DHT, Weipai Mocha DHT-PHEV, Geely Emgrand L Thor Hi · Brand models such as X and Trumpchi Yingku have once again fueled the hybrid car market.
Consumer trends accelerate the rise of hybrids
In fact, hybrid vehicles are not a new species that has just been launched, as early as a few years ago, with BYD's transformation to new energy vehicles, its hybrid models were popular in the market. However, the hybrid vehicle market in previous years had limited product competitiveness compared to today. Although BYD is thriving, hybrid vehicle sales are only used as a supplement to new energy vehicles.
In the past two years, with the enhancement of people's awareness of environmental protection and the clarity of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality time points, while the development of pure electric vehicles is menacing, hybrid vehicles have also ushered in the spring of the market. According to statistics, as of 2021, the production of hybrid vehicles in the mainland will be about 688,900 units, an increase of 35.3% year-on-year, and sales will be 668,700 units, an increase of 34% year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, the hybrid car market is hot, in addition to the advantage that the hybrid car can be on the green card, the improvement of the product has allowed more people to choose the hybrid model. For example, in terms of endurance, the pure electric endurance of the hybrid vehicle was generally about 100km, and now the pure electric cruising range has reached 200km, and the full fuel full electric cruising range is more than 1200km.
Secondly, the product matrix of hybrid vehicles has been further enriched, and while plug-in hybrid vehicles are becoming more and more mature, the increase of range extended electric vehicles has played an important role in enhancing the pull of consumer groups.
Finally, the rising fuel price in the past two years has allowed consumers to choose hybrid models in the balance between economy and means of transportation. For consumers, the endurance hybrid car is more practical than the pure electric vehicle; in terms of fuel saving, the hybrid car is more economical and environmentally friendly than the fuel vehicle. Therefore, the needs of the market have also led to the emergence of hybrid vehicles.
The eight immortals across the sea each show their miraculous powers
On April 26, with the Tiggo 8 PLUS Kunpeng e+ driving off the production line, the Tiggo 8 series became the fastest model of 500,000 medium-size SUVs and 7-seatER SUVs of Chinese brands, witnessing the "Chery Speed" of Chinese brand Chery Automobile.
As a national new energy technology research and development project, the Kunpeng DHT super hybrid technology equipped with Tiggo 8 PLUS Kunpeng e+ is not only the best hybrid solution in Chery 4.0 global power architecture, but also demonstrates Chery's advanced technical strength in the field of hybrid power. Under the blessing of the core technology of "3 Engines, 3 Gears, 9 Modes and 11 Speeds", Tiggo 8 PLUS Kunpeng e+ has achieved excellent results such as pure electric endurance of 100km, comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 km, and comprehensive endurance of more than 1000km, reaching the leading level of the industry.
In fact, in addition to the Kunpeng DHT super hybrid technology in the industry, there are also great wall lemon hybrid DHT system, BYD's DM-i, Trumpchi Julang hybrid, Changan UNI-K iDD and Geely Lei's Intelligent Engine Hi· X is a well-known hybrid technology or product in China.
Named after Emgrand L Thor Hi · X as an example, the car has three major characteristics such as 1.5TD engine + three-speed hybrid electric drive DHT Pro + BMA super hybrid.
Built with Geely's new generation of BMA modular architecture. The car is equipped with a new 1.5TD turbocharged direct-injection engine with a maximum power of 133 kW and a maximum torque of 290 N·m. With the blessing of the 3-speed hybrid electric drive DHT Pro, the new car can achieve parallel connection in the full speed domain, and there are up to 20 intelligent working modes, truly oilable, electric, parallel hybrid, and long-range.
The hybrid car market is on the rise
Although the world has successively issued a timetable for banning the sale of fuel vehicles, the development of the new energy automobile industry is imminent. However, for consumers, hybrid models can be transported in pure electric mode in urban areas compared to pure electric vehicles, and hybrid mode can be selected in long-distance driving. Its economical and practical characteristics are more suitable for the current consumer car needs.
In addition, for the industry and car companies, the main raw materials in the upstream of hybrid vehicles include electrolytes, cathode materials, anode materials, diaphragms and metal materials, etc., the midstream is batteries, electronic controls, motors and other components, and the downstream is the manufacture of hybrid vehicles.
Compared with the pure electric vehicle industry chain with a relatively single production link, the hybrid vehicle industry involves more comprehensive industries and types. For the fuel vehicle industry, which urgently needs to transform into new energy vehicles, a wider industrial chain can solve the employment problem of more transferees, and it is also a problem that must be faced by the overall transformation of the industry.
Since the beginning of this year, the continuous rise in fuel prices has stimulated the hot market of hybrid vehicles, and the plug-in hybrid models that have been ignored before have become the largest growth points in the market, which makes car companies have great confidence in the development of hybrid models. According to the analysis of industry veterans, this year's plug-in hybrid market will continue to strengthen, and the A-class hybrid market in 2022 will reach a scale of 500,000.
In the long run, if there is no purchase restriction or intervention on hybrid vehicles in various provinces and cities (such as separating hybrid models from new energy vehicle products, not enjoying the policy of green cards, etc.), then hybrid vehicles will undoubtedly become the best products to replace fuel vehicles at present. With the stability of the trend of hybrid vehicles, manufacturers are bound to accelerate the speed of deep ploughing in hybrid vehicle products, and with the intervention of global brands, more technology will be injected into products, which will also make the development space of hybrid vehicles enlarge again, and the market will also get greater growth.